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Shocker—New Moon is dominating the box office. The second Twi flick grossed $26.3 million just in midnight showings. Sorry, Twi haters, but this franchise is here to stay.

We've done enough talking on New Moon this, Twilight that, so now it's your turn.

No doubt many of you are going to check out the flick this weekend, and we want to hear your thoughts. That nasty Answer B!tch posted a semigenius review of N.M. broken down into movie ratings based on your Twilight devotion.

As you all head to the theater to check out not very much R.Pattz but more Kristen and Taylor, let us know if you think Twilight 2 lives up to its hype.

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Hate Twilight? Here's what your missing in our New Moon Rising gallery.

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New Moon is going to open huge today, no doubt about it, so it's never too soon to look ahead. 

We recently chatted with producer Bill Bannerman and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg about what fans can expect for Eclipse—the third film in The Twilight Saga, due next summer. Many reports have called it much darker, with new director David Slade (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night), so we asked if the PG-13 audience would still be able to hang. 

Plus, we've got more updates for you on the fate of Breaking Dawn...

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"We tried to do the musical version, but we couldn't get the rights." 

—Zac Efron joking back when we asked about his choice to go for a role in Me and Orson Welles rather than another High School Musical or Footloose-type flick. 

It's a major departure for dimpled and goody singer Efron. The 22-year-old wholesome type plays Orson's high-school kid Richard, who lands his dream role in illustrious film and theater legend Welles' production of Julius Caesar, only to be met with unexpected theatrical egos and chick problems. HSM15, this ain't. 

But after checking out Efron in this pretty serious, yet oddly screwball period piece, we realized Z has the potential to take Hollywood—and not just teens—by storm. 

And when we met with well-spoken Zac at the Welles junket at the Four Seasons Hotel in Bev Hills, he told us about his big hankering to "do something different." 

But will it pay off?

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Is Megan Fox getting ready to slip into something, not exactly more comfortable, but much more leathery? Hollywood's buzzing that Meg is slated to be the next Catwoman when Chris Nolan's the third Batman flick starts shooting next year, which we told you forever ago would happen.

Megan Fox + sexy role + skintight bodysuit = No-brainer, duh right?

We contacted Meg's rep to see if she is indeed set for the role, or if she would have any interest in being part of a big blockbuster...again.

Here's the deal:

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Few more yummy morsels for you from the set of The Fighter. Like we told you yesterday, filming is underway on the outskirts of Boston, and Amy Adams, Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg are all putting their game faces on for the much-hyped movie due out next year. Although, some are having more success than others.

Think you know which out of the three is the best-behaved out on the East Coast?

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Christian Bale's setting off all kinds of alarms again.

Filming of The Fighter is underway in Massachusetts, and we have a super spy on the set giving us some dee-lish deets. Seems the big three (Bale, Mark Wahlberg and Amy Adams) were all on location at the retro-hip Olympia Restaurant, a frequent hang for past real-life fighters like Mickey Ward.

You remember that perfectionist Bale likes to do things as realistically as possible, right? He's slimmed down dangerously for parts before (like The Machinist), and now the emaciated actor's doing it again.

"[Christian] has lost almost as much weight as he did for The Machinist. He is so gaunt," blab our eyes, standing right next to the Batman star.

Christian plays Dickie Eklund, a former crack addict, so that explains why Bale is so skeletal all of a sudden. "They have even thinned his hair—he just looks sickly."

But Christian's bizarre behavior doesn't stop at his appearance...

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Thanks to Comic-Con and the sizzlin' summer heat, we're totally hungry for pretty popcorn flicks starring scorching stars. And thank horny heavens there are a ton o' hot pieces of movie tail to choose from!

At the top of the beauteous pile, tho, are clearly two front-runners as the hottest blockbuster babes: G.I. Joe's Channing Tatum and Iron Man 2's Scarlett Johansson. (Sure, IM2 won't be released until next May, but ScarJo's totally whetting our appetite with the released promo stills of her in action.) Both hons are in A-list movies that are competing for their respective summer seasons, and both Chan and Scar are young, fresh newlyweds with careers that are totally on fire. But which action throbber is more doable?

Tough call. In fact, it's too close to call. We're caught between a ScarJo rack and Channing's hard abs. Guess it's a draw?

But...what if we factor in their costars to pick which flick will be the sexiest? In that regard, it's obvious that the hotter cast is...

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Gotta admit Cher and Christina Aguilera starring in a movie together may not be a recipe for huge box-office numbers, but it sure would be a must-see movie. And if certain movie powers that be have their way, it'll happen. I'm totally hearing Cher's currently in talks with the filmmakers behind Aguilera's Burlesque, to see if she might be coming on board, too.

Remember when my bro Marc Malkin first broke the news about this flick (later confirmed by Variety)? Project's about a singer from the boonies who comes to L.A. and performs in a sultry nightclub, one that will quite possibly be run by Sin City vamp expert Cher herself.

But what's most interesting to me is the proposed billing:

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We gotta hand it to Angelina Jolie, whether she's in Tomb Raider popcorn stuff or Changeling fancy flicks, she steals the damn show, something Jen Aniston has never learned how to do.

J.A. is always, always the second-fiddle girlfriend to the main dude (Bruce Almighty, Rock Star) or lost in a sea of costars (He's Just Not That Into You). And it's even worse when she really is the star. Oh, no? What bitch was featured on the Marley & Me poster? A friggin' dog. How insulting is that?

And now Aniston's slumming it (professionally and paycheck-wise) in the indie movie Management, in which we hear Jen, whom we really do love, still manages to get upstaged by a less likely source...

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Is there anyone with a bigger ego than Jennifer Aniston? Jenny's glossy-haired head is so huge, babe can't admit she's doing anything wrong in her personal or professional life.

Don't think so? Ani's box-office hits are all these vapid fluff pieces—the only growth she got from starring in Marley & Me or He's Just Not That Into You is in her bank account, not as an actress. Now Management is about to be released soon, and it's just another nothin'-flick to eventually throw into the Aniston discount bin.

Or is it?

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I'm asleep already. So the über-classy Weinsteins are getting in bed with the even classier Anne Hathaway to make a biopic of Judy Garland.

Of course, nobody resurrected the drug-addict singing genius (and all around loveable nut) better than Judy Davis in Me and My Shadows, but that was for television, which, of course, is so little people. This is going to be big! And grand! And equally harrowing and probably going to get Hathaway far closer to an Oscar than she came with Rachel Getting Married, primo as her performance may have been in the largely unsung flick.

But really, folks, this is all getting very Kennedys, at this point. I mean, do we really need another tragic tale of that damned performer's life? Do you think anybody will pay attention? What about Lindsay Lohan's or Courtney Love's or even Amy Winehouse's unblemished life on film—those are horrorfests that are not only screaming to be told, they also just might wake up a few young and aspiring drug addicts. Plus, it'd be something different.

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Some Hollywood stars are not shy when it comes to discussing a movie star’s privates, check it out: “All the attention that Watchmen is getting for going full frontal, Jason did it first!”

So sassed I Love You, Man’s Paul Rudd at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, while promoting his new funny flick with on-and-off-screen amigo Jason Segel. While we were bitching about the lack of male star wattage willing to drop trou on camera (and those who do are hardly worthy of our staring at their junk), we forgot all about the daring dude who literally went balls out in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. ILYM costar Jamie Pressley just remembered Segel’s package, too:

Jaime: Oh yeah, I did see your penis. I just don't remember that much about it.
Jason: My penis or the movie?
Jaime: Your penis.

Ouch! Sorry, J.S., that had to hurt. But you’ll be surprised how much flashing his man parts has worked on Jase’s love life:

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